You only have to look at where people get information from to see why they might be suffering from a complete disconnect from reality. When the people providing

You only have to look at where people get information from to see why they might be suffering from a complete disconnect from reality. When the people providing "news" have a monetary incentive to keep peoples' eyes glued on the screen/app they have no reason to report that everything's mostly ok and large scale bad things are very rare.